2009 Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet SauvignonAll sales from WINETOGOUSA are final. We offer global shipping. Please note that recipients in the United States must be legally eligible to accept deliveries containing alcohol. Winemaker Notes When you talk about vintages at Montelena, they are often categorized as "hot" or "cool." Then occasionally there are years like 2007 which, because of their ideal conditions, earn the tag of "Goldilocks" because everything was just right. Warm spring

offers a cooling ocean breeze during the mornings and afternoons that balances the renowned structure of Oakville

all underlain by striking minerality

The nose is fruity

If a grower with an abundance of fruit hadn’t given Burt Williams a few tonnes of free grapes in the 1970s

and blackberry

the wines still have the same aromatic intensity and complex

We produced only 850 cases

Anthony Barton

These techniques allow the varietal character and terroir of O’Shaughnessy Estate vineyards to be the stars of the show

Still with an extremely small case production they made the Hossfeld Red Blend also from the Hossfeld Vineyard in Soda Canyon

The palate is remarkably seamless

and the soil consists of very deep gravel on limestone marl